Cardiac Tissues From Stem Cells: New Routes to Maturation and Cardiac Regeneration

The ability of human pluripotent stem cells to form all cells of the body has provided many opportunities to study disease and produce cells that can be used for therapy in regenerative medicine. Even though beating cardiomyocytes were among the first cell types to be differentiated from human pluri...

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Published in:Circulation research Vol. 128; no. 6; p. 775
Main Authors: Campostrini, Giulia, Windt, Laura M, van Meer, Berend J, Bellin, Milena, Mummery, Christine L
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States 19.03.2021
Subjects:
Animals
Cellular Reprogramming Techniques - methods
Heart - physiology
Humans
Myocytes, Cardiac - cytology
Myocytes, Cardiac - metabolism
Pluripotent Stem Cells - cytology
Pluripotent Stem Cells - metabolism
Regeneration
Tissue Engineering - methods
heart failure
stem cells
drug discovery
humans
cardiac tissue
ISSN:1524-4571, 1524-4571
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Summary:The ability of human pluripotent stem cells to form all cells of the body has provided many opportunities to study disease and produce cells that can be used for therapy in regenerative medicine. Even though beating cardiomyocytes were among the first cell types to be differentiated from human pluripotent stem cell, cardiac applications have advanced more slowly than those, for example, for the brain, eye, and pancreas. This is, in part, because simple 2-dimensional human pluripotent stem cell cardiomyocyte cultures appear to need crucial functional cues normally present in the 3-dimensional heart structure. Recent tissue engineering approaches combined with new insights into the dialogue between noncardiomyocytes and cardiomyocytes have addressed and provided solutions to issues such as cardiomyocyte immaturity and inability to recapitulate adult heart values for features like contraction force, electrophysiology, or metabolism. Three-dimensional bioengineered heart tissues are thus poised to contribute significantly to disease modeling, drug discovery, and safety pharmacology, as well as provide new modalities for heart repair. Here, we review the current status of 3-dimensional engineered heart tissues.
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ISSN:1524-4571
1524-4571
DOI:10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.318183